| kv wrote: |
| Quick search on google gave this URL
http://www.laughing-buddha.net/jon/php/password/ Good one. Just search google, you will get lot of them. http://www.google.com/search?q=php%20generate%20random%20password |
| Code: |
| <?php
function generatePassword ($length = 8) { // start with a blank password $password = ""; // define possible characters $possible = "0123456789bcdfghjkmnpqrstvwxyzæøåABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZÆØÅ"; // set up a counter $i = 0; // add random characters to $password until $length is reached while ($i < $length) { // pick a random character from the possible ones $char = substr($possible, mt_rand(0, strlen($possible)-1), 1); // we don't want this character if it's already in the password if (!strstr($password, $char)) { $password .= $char; $i++; } } // done! return $password ; } ?> |
| ranzon wrote: | ||
i found the first script, but it dont return anything:
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| Code: |
| <?php
function generatePassword ($length = 8) { // ... } for ($i=0; $i<10; ++$i) { echo generatePassword(12), '<br>'; } ?> |
| Code: |
| <?php
function generatePassword($length) { // start with a blank password $password = ""; // define possible characters $possible = "0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"; // set up a counter $i = 0; // add random characters to $password until $length is reached while ($i < $length) { // pick a random character from the possible ones $char = substr($possible, mt_rand(0, strlen($possible)-1), 1); // we don't want this character if it's already in the password if (!strstr($password, $char)) { $password .= $char; $i++; } } // done! return $password ; } $RandomPass = generatePassword(8); echo $RandomPass; ?> |
| AftershockVibe wrote: | ||
| When you say "return" do you mean it doesn't print anything or does itn't return a value from the function?
I'm not sure about variable assignment in parameters either... Try the following:
You probably don't want to echo it but this is a good test. I also removed some of the untypable characters and lower case vowels and 'l' (As they were missing for some reason). |
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